Chapter 6: The Loocrative Mission
It has been precisely 10 seconds since the men in black left and Katarina Vester naturally assumed that would be the exact amount of time she would make her decision. Unfortunately, her calculations were incorrect. She still couldn't decide; save the world and live a life of misery and regret, or let the world be doomed by Nigel Bank and settle down in her new life for about a few days...but still have a life full of friends.
"Guys," Kat calmed down and began, "What should I do?"
"I'll tell you what you should; stay here and let me be the secret agent and go on a mission filled with double agents, ninjas with light-sabers, tigers hanging from helicopters!" Duck blabbed.
"No, Duck!" Zadavia state firmly, "I think, Katarina, you should do what's right. Besides, they never said you can't make your own rules of a deal."
Kat smiled slyly, getting the idea of what Zadavia was thinking.
The twins in black waited for an answer outside of the room, they couldn't understand why Agent Panther would give up a life of espionage for silly superhero games with a bunch of loonies who were probably only ten years (or a few years older) older than her. Not to mention the duck in orange and black was really annoying to be around, imagine working with him. With time, the newly blue (and possibly blacker) cat walked right out of the room with confidence in her step, maybe she finally had a little change in her opinions. The twins knew the S.I.D. should have brain washed her when they had the chance, that way she wouldn't want freedom. But nnnnoooo, the chief wanted her to grow up normally so her IQ and skills would grow bigger than ever.
"So?" both the twins wondered aloud.
"Okay," her velvet suave voice purred.
The twins snuck a high five behind their back, they got the S.I.D.'s best agent back on the force, and maybe this time they can put her back in the cell and bring her out on missions...and have her like it.
"But," there's always a 'but' with her, time to stop celebrating, "Not as Agent Panther, but as one of the Loonatics who are going to defeat Nigel Bank. One last mission with my friends as a Loonatic and then I'm done, this doesn't mean I'm coming back to the S.I.D."
The twins were supposed to not show any emotion upon their faces, no matter what kind of situation they're up against. But hearing those words out of the cat had triggered them to laugh with amusement, laughing louder than any hyena.
"Are we supposed to believe that you want the superheros to take care of a secret agent job!" one of the twins chuckled.
"What are they're going to do? Wrap their capes around Tweetdumb face!" the other brother giggled.
"We don't wear capes." Agent Panther gave an icy glare with arms crossed.
Their laughs stopped as they noticed from her glare she was serious about the situation, the twins grew nervous; the superdorks would just get in Agent Panther's way...but they realized that she was already a superdork too. She and perhaps the suited weirdos were their only hope to stop the ruthless Nigel Bank.
"Alright, Agent Panther. You got yourself a deal." A twin accepted her deal, however didn't bother to shake hands.
They spotted little sparks of lightning buzzing out of her paws, "It's just Kat."
The Loonatics waited anxiously in their lounge room, thanks to Lexi's superhearing she repeated most of what the twins and Kat said halls away from the room. They were a little mad about what the men in black laughed about the Loonatics...except for Duck, he was only excited about going on a secret mission, maybe he can even get a tuxedo with a laser bow tie.
"The name's Duck, Danger Duck," Duck sat on the sofa, saying in a ridiculous James Bond voice, having his hand formed in a pretend gun with a small and very real orange fiery orb of energy at the end of his finger feather tip, "Shaken, not stirred." He blew the orb of his hand like it was smoke on a gun.
"Ssh," Lexi whispered, "They're coming."
"Everyone, pretend you just didn't hear a top secret meetin' about a threat to national security." Ace ordered.
It made almost all the Loonatics sit in unusual positions on the sofa...Slam was close enough to squish Duck.
The men in black from the S.I.D. and Kat came into the lounge room at ease. All the Loonatics turned around and focused on them, pretending they weren't eager to know the rest of what they said in the hall.
"So, do we get the mission?" Lexi slowly asked and checked her nails as if she was bored (not!)
Together, the twins sighed, "Yes. The superzeros get to go on a government mission that should've been taken care of only by Agent Panth...I mean Kat."
"I'm curious, what did this Nigel Bank stole as well as the Sonic-Wave Blaster 3000?" Tech wandered to the buff twins.
"The Microwave-Pluser 4000 and the Blackhole-Projector 5000," One of the suited twins blankly said to the coyote, "Why do inventors always put a large number at the end of the name?"
Slam blabbed grumbles understandable noises.
"I'm glad you asked, Slam," Said Tech, "The Sonic-Wave Blaster 3000 is an USW or an ultrasonic weapon, it can project a sound wave intensely penetrating and eloquent enough to annihilate even a building made out of diamonds, if there was a building made out of diamonds. It's used for demolishing old buildings to make new ones."
Kat explained part of Slam's question, "The Microwave-Pulser 4000 is a heat pulse generator guaranteed to spread rays of heat that can burn anything to ashes, and it's used to destroy unrecycleable waste products."
Rev yammered in seconds for the final part of the question, "And-the-Blackhole-Projector-is-an-experimental-device-that-can-obviously-create-a-sucking-black-hole-in-midair-and-can-make-the-black-hole-disappear-it's-currently-being-tested-at-the-AcmeIssitute-although-it's-not-currently-there-anymore-since-it's-been-stolen-by-Nigel-Bank's-goons."
"It's burns!" Duck screamed in agony.
"What's wrong?" Kat moaned.
"The sound of nerdy technoblabble from three geeks is melting my brain! Dork overload!" Duck clutched onto his skull.
Tech, Rev and Kat all rolled their eyes.
Tech stroked the fur on his chin as he came up with a theory out loud, "With those components together you could get a highly destructive Atomic-Rayinator, when activated from millions of miles of distance it can destroy all Acmetroplois into nothing, not even ashes and dust. That's my guess of what Nigel wants with all those inventions,"
"Any way we can stop it?" Lexi asked as Duck covered his ear holes to not hear the smart talk.
Kat hummed, thinking deeply and saying her accurate guess out loud, "An Atomic-Rayinator would need a powerful yet independent energy source, I think Rapid and Tweetdumb are after the Electro-Sphere, a strong and experimental sphere of electric energy with no harm to others so far. It's as powerful as a hundred trillion rocket fuels and right now it's at Area 55."
"And it's getting late so our little goons will be out and about. Let's jet." Ace declared before all the Loonatics headed out.
After travelling through the starry sky in their jet-like hovercraft to Area 55, the forth recreation of the military base that was on earth, Area 51, the Loonatics were in a dark ginormous room filled with blinking buttons and in the middle of the room was a bright white ball of sparking energy like a large version of a sparkler without a stick, floating on top a podium, lighting up the room on and off. They were guarding the Electro-Sphere, waiting for Nigel's goons; Rapid and Tweetdumb. 26 minutes had past and still no mouse or bird, some of them were getting sleepy, Duck was asleep.
Tech had wanted to ask Kat something really important, he couldn't resist any longer, "Kat, how come you never told us you were a secret agent and adopted by the S.I.D.?"
"For about two reasons, firstly; the others already think I'm a geek and a baby...at least Duck mostly does...I don't want them scared that I was trained to be a lethal weapon. Secondly, if I told my secret of my former occupation without permission from the S.I.D. then they would probably wipe my entire memory, your entire memory...or worse." Kat explained, sitting next to Tech.
"Don't worry; we don't think of you any differently than the smart, athletic, witty and mischievous young girl we met at the museum," Tech assured her.
"Thanks, that's the ni...wait, what do you mean 'mischievous'?" Kat asked firmly with her fists on her hips.
"Well, you can be a little rebellious. Like the time you hacked into my super computer to change my password from E=mc² to 'Who-let-the-farting-coyote-out?'." Tech answered with a little crossness in the last sentence.
Kat giggled, "Yeah, that was hilarious!"
"I tawt I taw a puddy tat," boomed an immature voice from above, from an enormous muscular canary standing on a metal beam with an ugly rat-like mouse wearing a sombreo with spikes.
The Loonatics jumped on their feet and looked above (it took a while for Duck to wake up, though).
They listened carefully to more of what the bird cheered, "I did! I did taw a puddy tat!"
"That's kinda getting old!" Kat called out angrily to Tweetdumb.
"Who's dumb and dumber up there?" asked Ace with his hands clutched.
"That's them, Rapid Gonzales and Tweetdumb." Kat grunted.
The Mexican mouse with a raspy Spanish accent chuckled, "Buenas noches, débil gatito. I knew you'd quit the 'spy business' but it was such a surprise when I found out that you now have powers and are a Loonatics."
"That's them? They're the goons of the most uncatchable villian? They're not even worth beating up! Especially the German rat" Duck laughed.
"On the contary, idiota pato! It is all of you who are not worth beating up...but we're going to do it anyway." Rapid grinned crazily, revealing his sharp teeth.
At his last breath, hundreds of men wrapped in black landed on the ground, some with weapons like swords and the others carried nothing but their deadly hands. As they landed, they swiftly swayed their arms and legs around in martial art moves with some shrieks similar to 'hiyah', as if they showing off, trying to frighten the Loonatics away.
"No lightsabers! I mean sure, they're ninjas! But they don't have sabers or light!" Duck shouted in disbelief.
Next; a woman with long wavy brown hair, deep amethyst eyes, skin like moonlight, lips were red like they were dipped in blood, wearing a black leather body suit showing her small waist, came down from beyond and landed on her long black high heeled boots in front of the army of ninjas.
"Katarina." She hissed with a smile.
Kat murmured with her fists flashing, "Valerie."
Rapid and Tweetdumb jumped off the metal beam, on each side of Valerie.
"Hey! Don't you remember our deal? You get to kill them and get the money if we do that cool martial art movement pose thing first!" Rapid madly screeched.
"You can still do it." Valerie moaned.
Excitedly both Rapid and Tweetdumb screamed different types of 'hiyah's and did their martial art showing off in their own way, Rapid swayed his arms so much he spun around and fell on the floor. Tweetdumb started off with Karate chops, but got confused and accidentally did the robot instead.
"You just ruined it." She grunted.
Kat chuckled, "I never thought you would work for Bank as a goon, Val."
"I'm not a goon and I'm not 'working' for Bank, I'm hired by him. I work freelance." Valerie huffed and puffed crossly like the big bad wolf.
"Let me guess; the easy is to simply hand over the Electro-Sphere without any harm and the hard way is to kill us and take the sphere once you're done,"
"You were always a smart cookie,"
"Well yeah, but that was predictability, you're just so typical."
"So what's it going to be?"
Kat knew the answer, but turned to Ace to let him speak. She had such a blabbermouth that she wanted him to speak.
Ace grinned, "Hard way."
And so the ninjas rushed forward and played hardball against the Loonatics, they were useless against Ace. Whenever the ninjas were about to attack, her would either kick, punch or laser vision shoot them away with his glowing yellow eyes...almost as yellow as Kat's natural eyes. Lexi handled the ninjas very well, not only did she kicked, hit and blast with her bright pink brain blast with her eyes glowing pink, she used her gymnastic skills to dodge some of the attacks and block others with her sharp reflexes. Slam merely with his glowing purple eyes spun around in a tornado and sucked the ninjas in and used his super strong fists to punch them out unexpectedly. Duck and his eyes of orange light teleported in orange and green flashes in random spots to tire out the ninjas, or use the element of surprise to force them away from the Electro-Sphere with his orange orbs. Rev wasn't much of an attacker; he along with his eyes lit up red just used his superspeed to dodge every one of the ninjas moves and when they get tired WHACK! Down they go. His eyes flashed bright green as he used his green magnetic energy from his paws to wrap most of the ninjas up with all of the metal beams along the ceiling. There was only one Loonatic who didn't fight the ninjas, Kat. She was too busy defending herself from one person more violent, stealthy and deadly than a thousand black belt ninjas, Valerie.
As Valerie tried to strike attack Kat to freeze her with Kat blocked every move using her arms, she smugly said, "Just give up, Katarina. I've taught you everything I know,"
She hated it when Valerie called her Katarina, she grasped Val's arm and attempted to spin her, but Valerie knew what she was trying to do and instead spun Kat.
Kat knew she had to step up her game, so she did a handstand and tried to kick Valerie with her legs bent down, but Val missed every kick, Kat growled and watched the upside down Valerie, "It's not Katarina, it's just Kat. And you didn't teach me everything, you only taught me combat for two weeks, Val."
Kat saw he kicking idea wasn't working, she descided to and did get back on her feet, ran up some of the wall she was close to, pounce off and lunged for Valerie, but Val spunkicked Kat in her stomach and pressed her against the wall.
Valerie beamed shrewdly, "Yes, but I still taught you. And it's not just Val, its Valerie."
Kat realized she hadn't used her powers on her yet, showing what the new and free Kat can really do. As she gathered the electrical energy inside of her into her paws, her eyes went from golden yellow to sun bright blue; her paws glowed a matching colour and suddenly zapped out a huge bolt of lightning, forcing Valerie off her like a large gush of wing.
Kat beamed the same smile as Valerie did, "You may have taught me a few things, but that doesn't mean you know everything about me."
Valerie got up from the ground with a ridiculous new hairdo from Kat's shock; the static electricity must have buzzed Val's wavy down hair into a frizzy afro. Angry from her new look, Valerie ran as fast as her legs can take her. She brought out from her utility belt metal throwing stars and threw them straight at Kat. Luckily, Kat used her Electric Kinetic Enhancement power to jump or flip many metres high in the air to miss some of the stars, forcing them to stick into the wall instead of Kat. With the other stars, she used her lightning bolts to strike each star to melt them away. Although, there was one star left heading for her and was centimetres close. Before she knew it, the star was grasped by Tech's magnetic powers and was redirected away from Kat's face and at a wall.
"Thanks." She smiled and Tech gave a wink, but returned back to his situation.
Oddly, Valerie didn't try to attack again. She stood up calmly and giggled, "You know what, forget it. You win."
Kat's ears heard faint beeps coming from the throwing stars stuck into the wall behind her and within second the entire wall blew up, revealing a great view of Acmetropolis.
"Fall out, boys!" Valerie ordered her ninjas loudly.
The ninjas stopped their fighting with the Loonatics and ran with Valerie through the newly made exit and out of the building.
"I don't understand, what's going on?" Kat gasped.
"I'll tell you what's going on," Kat heard the familiar rough squeaks from the mouse (or rat) at the new exit, she turned around all the way and saw Rapid riding on top of the fluttering Tweetdumb while holding the Electro-Sphere in his tiny paws.
Rapid continued on laughing, "We got the ball! Nigel was right! He knew you would be so distracted by Valerie and her ninjas that you wouldn't even notice us stealing this thingymagig! And do you know what we're going to do now?"
"Make waffles!" Tweetdumb guessed proudly.
Rapid gave himself a head slap, ran his paw slowly down his snout and smashed Tweetdumb's tiny head on his huge body with the sphere.
"No, you cerebro de las aves," Rapid squeaked, "We're going to go off and you can't stop us. Adiós, princesa de la estupidez!"
"Bwye bwye, puddy tat!" Tweetdumb chirped right before he flew off as fast twenty trillion rockets.
Kat couldn't believe it; she lost the Eletro-Sphere and the only connections to Nigel Bank. The world was doomed all because the Loonatics weren't completely focused on the energy source...especially Kat.